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...President in 1952. His chief opponent, Birmingham's Democratic Representative Laurie Calvin Battle, is campaigning effectively on the charge that Sparkman has let geography be his guide on the civil-rights issue during and since the 1952 campaign. Said Battle: "He kicked it on one side of the Mason-Dixon Line and caught it on the other...
...tennis squad, which also has a 15-match schedule, will open with three contests below the Mason-Dixon line. Two meetings with the perennially powerful North Carolina team and one with Navy should give the varsity a stiff work...
...With very few exceptions, Americans cannot accurately lay claim to unmixed descent, particularly many born since the great flood of immigration during the latter iSoos. But the product of such dilutions of the earlier bloodstreams of Northern Europe surely cannot all have concentrated above the Mason-Dixon Line, and must have gravitated down as well as out and upward. On the other hand, miscegenation in the South was no mere rumor. The masters of the great plantations and farms, and their menfolk generally were not insusceptible to the charms of the better-favored females in the slave quarters. Were these...
...Freshman Senator John Kennedy, a curious blend of Boston conservatism and New Deal liberalism, is firm in his belief that the Federal Government should do something to slow down this economic migration. Democrat Kennedy has delivered long speeches in the Senate, has written for magazines-and even crossed the Mason-Dixon Line to defend his program. Last week he offered the clearest statement of his argument to date in a 4,000-word article in the Atlantic, aptly subtitled "The Struggle for Industry...
Seeking a larger representation of Northern teams this year, the Forum Committee is making a concerted effort to draw schools from this side of the Mason-Dixon line...